Vietnam is not facing fuel shortages, minister says

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HANOI: Vietnam is not facing fuel shortages, its trade and industry minister said on Friday (Oct 28), seeking to calm concerns after some gas stations in southern cities cut or limited sales, citing financial difficulties. The move was because of fluctuation in the foreign exchange rate and because some fuelContinue Reading

Thinking through the China hype

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China’s economic aspirations have evolved rapidly. What has remained constant for centuries is a determination to return to the domestic wealth and international power that most Chinese view as the only acceptable norm for a civilization that long led the global economy. Under Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin (1978– 2003), the leadership’s model of how […]Continue Reading

Four scenarios for a world in disorder

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s recent speech to the Communist Party Congress could be one of the most consequential of the decade. He told the audience – and the world – that his economic growth-crushing “zero-Covid” policy is here to stay, and that Beijing is more determined than ever to reunify with Taiwan, peacefully if possible […]Continue Reading

UK’s first Anglo-Asian leader grips a poison chalice

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The empire has struck back with a vengeance, as Anglo-Indian Rishi Sunak takes the United Kingdom’s national helm as its first-ever non-Caucasian prime minister. In a country that has had a sometimes vexed relationship with multi-culturalism, it speaks much of the millennial UK’s embrace of its ethnic minorities that Sunak has become prime minister. It […]Continue Reading